Singapore legislation
Section 216
Section 216
Regulations
(1)
The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make such regulations as are necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.
(2)
Without limiting subsection (1), the Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations —
to exempt any person or ship or description of persons or ships from all or any of the provisions of this Act;
to empower the Director to exempt any person or ship or description of persons or ships from all or any of the provisions of the regulations;
to prescribe the form of any document that may be required and to prescribe different forms for different circumstances;
to make different provision for different descriptions of persons or ships or for persons or ships of the same description in different circumstances;
to prescribe the offences that may be compounded;
to make provisions for any incidental or supplementary matters for which the Authority thinks it expedient for the purposes of the regulations to provide; and
to make a contravention of any provision of any regulation an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $10,000.